Volumul XX, 2009


Managing Editor


Associate Professor Camelia Dragomir (Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa)

Editorial Board


Professor Adina Ciugureanu (Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa)
Professor Nicolae Rotund (Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa)
Professor Ileana Alexandra Orlich (Arizona State University, SUA)
Professor Paul E. Michelson (Huntington University, SUA)
Professor James E. Augerot (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, SUA)
Associate Professor Florentina Nicolae (Universitatea "Ovidius" Constanţa)


Table of Contents


Section I. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS


On the Ambiguity of the Word ‘haiduc’ [Pages 9 - 16]
Paraschiva BOBOC
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Socio-Cultural Specificity and Translation. Socio-culturally Charged Idioms and Cultural Equivalence [Pages 17 - 28]
Mioara CODLEANU
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Perceptions of World Englishes among Romanian University Students [Pages 29 - 42]
Luis GUERRA
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The Category of Gender in Present-day English: Issues of Grammar and World View [Pages 43 - 66]
Diana HORNOIU
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When a Man Translates a Woman’s Work … Ideology or Misunderstanding? [Pages 67 - 76]
Vanessa LEONARDI
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On the Theory of Naming Predicates [Pages 77 - 86]
Mihaela MIRON-FULEA
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New Worlds, New Words: On Language Change and Word Formation in Internet English and Romanian [Pages 87 - 102]
Otilia PACEA
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Section II. LITERARY AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS


The Forging of the Media Icon in the Romanian Cultural Space. Case Study: the “Liviu Mihaiu” Brand [Pages 105 - 126]
Ana Maria MUNTEANU, Oana Diana MUŞAT
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Appropriating KING LEAR in Early Twentieth Century Spain [Pages 127 - 140]
Laura Campillo ARNAIZ
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Man and / in Language [Pages 141 - 152]
Remus BEJAN
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Tommaso Campanella : epilessia, malinconia e profezia [Pages 153 - 180]
Maurizio CAMBI
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Malleable Shakespeare : Reformulating Schechner’s Efficacy-Entertainment Braid [Pages 181 - 188]
Juan F. CERDÁ
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Glossolalia, heteroglossia and the Grotesque Body in the Towneley Second Shepherds’ Play [Pages 189 - 208]
Estella Antoaneta CIOBANU
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A Case of Spectatorship as Visual (Un)Pleasure : Moartea domnului Lăzărescu ( The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) [Pages 209 - 216]
Ileana JITARU
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The Academic Double Agent : Criticism and Fiction in David Lodge’s Early Novels [Pages 217 - 226]
Lucia OPREANU
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Picturing Daisy: Narrative Dynamics in Henry James’s Daisy Miller [Pages 227 - 234]
Ileana Alexandra ORLICH
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Eugène Ionesco tra disegno e poesia [Pages 235 - 246]
Giovanni ROTIROTI
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Glancing at Deforming Mirrors : The Mad Artists of the Beat Generation [Pages 247 - 252]
Raluca ROGOVEANU
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Hollywood Gender Representations of Irish America in the 20th Century: Maureen O’Hara and Pierce Brosnan [Pages 253 - 262]
Nicoleta STANCA
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Section III. BOOK REVIEWS


Stephanie Rains. The Irish-American in Popular Culture (1945-2000). Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007. 252 pages. [Pages 265 - 266]
Nicoleta STANCA
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